First Trust Announces Adjournment of Special Shareholder Meeting for First Trust Active Global Quality Income ETF

WHEATON, Ill., October 08, 2026--First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announced today that the special shareholder meeting for First Trust Active Global Quality Income ETF (the "Fund"), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII (the "Trust"), has been adjourned in order to permit additional solicitation of shareholders. The special shareholder meeting for the Fund will reconvene on Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Central time at the offices of FTA at 120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400 in Wheaton, Illinois.

The special shareholder meeting of the Fund was called to ask shareholders to vote 1) to approve a new investment sub-advisory agreement with Janus Henderson Investors US LLC ("Janus Henderson Investors") for the Fund (the "New Sub-Advisory Agreement"), and 2) to approve a "manager of managers" structure for the Fund (the "Manager of Managers Structure"). In general terms, if implemented, the Manager of Managers Structure would permit the Trust and FTA, subject to approval by the Board of Trustees of the Trust, to enter into and materially amend investment sub-advisory agreements for the Fund without obtaining shareholder approval. There can be no assurance that the necessary percentage of shareholders will vote to approve either proposal.

Janus Henderson Investors currently serves as the Fund's investment sub-advisor. Janus Henderson Group Ltd. ("Janus Henderson Group") is the parent company of Janus Henderson Investors. On December 21, 2025, Janus Henderson Group, Jupiter Company Limited, a company incorporated in Jersey ("Jupiter"), and Jupiter Merger Sub Limited, a company incorporated in Jersey and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupiter ("Merger Sub"), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger pursuant to which, in accordance with the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 (as amended from time to time), Jupiter agreed to acquire Janus Henderson Group by Merger Sub merging with and into Janus Henderson Group, with Janus Henderson Group continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupiter (the "Transaction"). Jupiter, formed for the purpose of completing the Transaction, is owned by, among others, funds affiliated with Trian Fund Management, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("Trian"), and funds affiliated with General Catalyst Group Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. The Transaction closed on June 30, 2026 (the "Closing"), and Janus Henderson Group is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupiter. Janus Henderson Investors remains an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Janus Henderson Group.